2 men dead in highway crash in southern Manitoba, 2 teen girls sent to hospital | CBC News
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Two men were killed in a highway crash in southern Manitoba when a passing vehicle clipped a truck that had stopped to help a stuck driver.
RCMP were called around 7:30 p.m. on March 6 to Highway 428, just north of the intersection with Road 19 North — about 10 kilometres north of Winkler.
The men had stopped their trucks on the edge of the highway to help the driver of a car that had slid off the road and into a snowy ditch, police said in a news release.
A 17-year-old girl driving toward them didn’t realize the trucks were stopped. She swerved to miss one but clipped the other. Her vehicle then swerved off the highway and into the back of the car in the ditch.
The owner of the stuck car, 44, and a 73-year-old from one of the trucks died. Both men were from Winkler.
The teen girl and a 17-year-old female passenger were not seriously injured but were taken to Boundary Trails Health Centre as a precaution, police said. No other injuries were reported.
Road conditions were noted to be icy at the time.
The investigation continues, RCMP say in the release.